Differences in gene density on chicken macrochromosomes and microchromosomes

Animal Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 96-103

  Smith, J ^a   Bruley, C K ^a   Paton, I R ^a   Dunn, I ^a   Jones, C T ^a   Windsor, D ^a   Morrice, D R ^a   Law, A S ^a   Masabanda, J ^b   Sazanov, A ^b   Waddington, D ^a   Fries, R ^b   Burt, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicken; Gene density; Gene dis covery; Gene mapping; Microchromosomes; Sequence sampling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DNA ANALYSIS; GENE DENSITY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; KARYOTYPE; MACROCHROMOSOME; MICROCHROMOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTONIN 1D RECEPTOR; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; COSMIDS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; PLATELET MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1D; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034050791     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2052.2000.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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